The Psalmist is typically teaching that we are unable in ourselves to sufficiently satisfy our own needs. Our spiritual health is dependent upon God's eternal knowledge and order. We must look outside of ourselves as we resolutely face many trials. We cannot naturally depend upon our wisdom and efforts to repair our spiritual and bodily injuries.
The Psalmist is complaining about his apparent inability to govern the formidable power of sin as one sin piles up upon another. 3 When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions."Before we were redeemed the law produced guilt in us by the curse. We vicariously experienced the negative consequences of the law in our moral guilt, shame, and fear. The destructive power of the curse plunged us into profound despair. God had to promptly expel the man from the cultivated garden and satisfactorily accomplish the work of eternal redemption to restore him. God gifted him with authority over the earth. He had to reestablish His divine government by acting according to His supreme justice and eternal righteousness.
God created all things to work together in pronouncing magnificent creation conforming to His moral law, covenants, comprehensive statutes, divine decrees, curses, and promises. Because of the fall, the sustainable world was cast into communicative disorder. God's eternal redemption was not only directed toward man's sin and corruption but prevented the dethroning of God over all necessary things. God's actions are always just and right. He decreed sin and corruption before He produced the world. The sole hope of being restored to our native authority was based on God's binding obligation in the form of a covenant of creation. This is why God has given us His pronouncements to establish His justice and righteousness through words that order the creation and repair of us when we are injured by sin and corruption. These official pronouncements are properly spoken investing with God's authority sufficiently restoring unity and order in renewing all necessary things.
These authoritative pronouncements for God's concerned people overcome all visible and spiritual opposition. Our struggle with sin signals us to the overpowering strength of the curse. This is why the Psalmist does not place his personal confidence in his own confession of sin. Alternatively, the sin motivates the Psalmist to distrust his own wisdom in speaking the pronouncements. This discipline of pronouncing the legitimate arguments to sufficiently establish supreme justice and righteousness typically consumes the Psalmist's despair of being buffeted by the curse's effects in this life. Instead of sin adding to the Psalmist's despair, he is provoked by the sin to consume the destructive power of guilt and shame. He rises up in the blessing or going down in the curse. God's supreme justice and righteousness are pronounced cursing the fierce curse in the appropriate use of His ideal law.
This discipline of pronouncing the axioms remain the official language that established the precise order and beauty of God's creation. After the Psalmist states his official complaint of the power of sin, points to the order of creation that has established God's lawful authority in the recreation. Through the creation pronouncements, the Psalmist overcomes all determined opposition as he is led out of himself by the sacred language of God. He receives the justified praise that triumphantly brings about the divine favor of God. We speak to God in the logic of the pronouncements for God to be pleased in gratefully receiving the praise that He justly deserves. The proper extolling of God in the pronouncements naturally relates to God and elaborate creation.5"hope of all the ends of the earth" 6 "who formed the mountains by your power" 7 "who stilled the roaring of the seas" 8 "where morning dawns and evening fades"you call forth songs of joy.9 You care for the land 9The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain11 You crown the year with your bounty." In neglecting the pronouncements we do not unite our sincere desires with God to genuinely please God in our affirmative actions by cheering Him on according to His applicable standard of the creation covenant.
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